Tag: Research policy
What did the Human Brain Project achieve? – Knowledge
After ten years, the Human Brain Project, the largest brain research project in the world, is ending. It has made some progress, but schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s have not been defeated.…
Artificial embryos: This research needs limits – knowledge
An artificial embryo, created without sperm or egg, without a uterus, grown from human stem cells in the laboratory – you don’t have to be delicate to find this report…
EU research program Horizon: Great Britain joins in again – politics
After the agreement in the Brexit dispute over Northern Ireland, there is now a further rapprochement between the EU and Great Britain: London will again take part in the billion-dollar…
Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft: Second board member after allegations must go – knowledge
Only three months ago, the Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft parted ways with its long-time President Reimund Neugebauer, and now the Society’s Senate has announced the next change in the Executive Board. In a…
Behavioral scientist Francesca Gino is suing Harvard – Knowledge
Behavioral scientist Francesca Gino has filed a lawsuit against three scientists who the blog Data Colada operated and against Harvard University, where she holds a professorship. Gino is seeking a…
Chemist Patrick Cramer is the new President of the Max Planck Society – Knowledge
The chemist Patrick Cramer is the new President of the Max Planck Society. Lack of young talent, gender equality, science denial: In an interview with the SZ, he explains how…
Bavaria is striving for a third university of excellence – Bavaria
The state government wants to reach for a third university of excellence for the Free State. The so-called excellence strategy, the competition between the federal and state governments to promote…
How scientists want to share data in the future – Knowledge
By Christian J Meier In the experimental hall L05-03 of the Technical University of Darmstadt, Grigorios Hatzissawidis shows a video that he recorded with a high-speed camera: water flows around…
Science contract law: Einstein only just made it
Politicians are trying to reform university careers. And should understand how entrepreneurial universities complicate the careers of young academics. source site
Honesty researchers are said to have cheated – knowledge
The world-renowned behavioral economist Francesca Gino is accused of data falsification. If the allegations are true, two researchers have cheated – and of all things in a work on honesty.…